The new version of Firefox broke my FCKEditor! They didn't do it on purpose I'm sure, but it did, in fact, break it. I am using what I consider the standard implementation in ColdFusion (that does not come bundled with ColdFusion). I updated my Firefox to the most recent version (3.6) which was released on January 28 and BOOM! Goodbye WYSIWIG.

The implementation uses the standard CFC (fckeditor.cfc) which includes a function in a file called "fckutils.cfm". Line 47 of that function looks like this:

stResult = reFind( "gecko/(200[3-9][0-1][0-9][0-3][0-9])", sAgent, 1, true );

This new release was released in 2010 so the first part of the string after "gecko/" fails. Changing that line to this will fix the problem:

stResult = reFind( "gecko/(20[0-9][0-9][0-1][0-9][0-3][0-9])", sAgent, 1, true );

I can't really take the credit. I found the solution on Pete Freitag's blog. Here's his post: http://www.petefreitag.com/item/737.cfm

Yesterday, I found myself needing more than ColdFusion could supply. I had a variable with content that came from a WYSIWYG editor. Some of that content was the result of inserting images into the content. By default the image source was set to the absolute path from the webroot (i.e. /images/imagefile.jpg). This worked great for the web, but I needed the same content to be sent via email which did not work so well.

I needed to find all instances of the “src” attribute and tack on a domain so the ending result would be http://domain.com/images/imagefile.jpg and therefore would be email friendly. I tried several ways of doing this (combinations of REFind, REMatch, etc) but everything ended up being more difficult than it should have been.

Luckily, a ColdFusion String maps directly to a Java String so even though the docs might not suggest it, there are methods available for use. The one I wanted was “replaceAll()”. It does a simple regex replace and allows for backreferencing ($1, $2, etc). Backreferencing is key to not lose content that I needed (i.e. /images/imagefile.jpg). So, here’s the code that finally made my day:

<cfset domainName = "http://domain.com" />
<cfset contentVariable = contentVariable.replaceAll("src=\""(\/.+?)\""", "src=\""#domainName#$1\""") />

Full documentation on Java’s String functions can be seen at the Java Docs -> String